Kaokey
Silver woke up as the first of the four moons touched the edge of the skyline.
She glanced about and let the calm of the night close in around her. As she stepped form
the hot springs she looked around to see if anyone was about, but found herself alone.
Her wounds were still sore, but they hadn't left a scar. When she glanced at the spot all she
could see was a perfect patch of silver scales gleaming back at her in the pale moonlight.
Silver sighed at she stepped away from the warmth of the steam by the springs and in to
the cool night air. After stretching and drying off she decided it was time to hunt.
Although she wasn't after a deer this time, no she thought to hunt a dragon. She wanted
to find Cota and have a few physical words with him, which probably involved ripping
his wings off.
Silver found herself once more fling low through the trees, she didn't know where Cota's
lair was and hoped it was close by the rift he had been using. She once more thanked
silently that blacks didn't have night vision like most others did. She slowed to a simple
glide and let her mind wonder. Her thoughts drifted in and out of her hatchling days. She
remembered all the strange adventures she had gone on as a hatchling. She remembered
the old caves, the ones that she, White Dagger (now known as White Gold), Cota and
Kaokey had found.......
* * * * * * * * * *
"COME ON!!!" yelled White to Cota and Kaokey as they raced down the hill. Silver
and White waited impatiently for them to get there. They wanted to get going. As they
reached the edge of the river that came from the waterfall, both Silver and White glared at
them, showing their anger. "What took you so long," said White. While Silver showed
her annoyance be keeping silent altogether. Both Cota and Kaokey winced and sat visible
uncomfortable under Silvers gave, for even as a hatchling her eyes seemed to look right
through you. Whites lecture drowned on until Silver nudged her say silently that they
understood they made a mistake. White glanced at her then finished her sentence and
turned away. Cota and Kaokey followed her and Silver came last. She gazed at Kaokey
for a while, thinking how he would turn out to be mighty Silver when he grew up some
what and she was already training him, even though he didn't know it. If she could teach
him right he would make a good mate, but for now all she wanted to do was go play in
the caves.
They reached the cliffs above the waterfall shortly and took of in to the sky. Cota
was a horrible flyer, but the rest were decent. Each did the traditional three circles and
dove through the rush of water to the cave behind it. The old caves where the best
entrance in to the old volcano fissures and they were huge. Larger then any lair would
even need to be. So large that even the four of them didn't know what was in ever
direction. If you knew the right way from the volcano though, you could get to the main
cave and that was big enough to house 25 dragon comfortably. They all liked it their but
Cota loved it best off all.......
* * * * * * * * * *
Suddenly Silver burst from the tree tops in to the sky. She knew where he was. He
was in the old caves. The waterfall was right by her lair. Silver roared in rage as she
rushed back, but she was till a half an hour away. She should have known all along. It
was Cota suggestion that none of them ever enter the caves after Kaokey had died and
Silver had been so distrot with grief she couldn't have cared if she ever went back again
or not. So, thought Silver you thought to use the old volcano passages as your lair, did
you. Well we will see about that. I bet my hord that is where you hide. She pulled her
wings in tighter and flew back faster toward her home. She would be damned if they
would use her grief against her any longer.
* * * * * * * * * *
As they each entered the cave they shifted in to their other preferred forms. Cota
shifted in to his leopard, White in to her White Griffin, Kaokey in to his Black Stallion
and Silver in to her Pegasus with Silver wing tips. Each would race, but it usually turned
out to be Cota vs. White, in which White would always win and Silver vs. Kaokey. It
was luck who won that one because Silver never used her wings so it was fair. Each then
would go to their favorite place. The caves had everything, but both Silver and Kaokey
agreed the springs were the best spot.
* * * * * * * * * *
Silver made it to her lair and glided easily down, while she used her mind check
to see if anyone watched her. She almost growled when she realized someone did.
Instead she went to the front of her lair and laid down. After a while she let her body go
in to a restful state. She began to focus on the person who watched and found it to be
coming from the waterfall. She felt a low growl began in her throat, but quickly hushed
it. Finally the presence vanished and she quickly got up and took to the air. After doing
the three circles she doves through the pounding water in to the cave, but she misjudged it
slightly and hit her wing on a rock. With a painful gasp she shifted in to Pegasus form
with out thinking. After realizing what she had done, she changed in to a human with her
heart in her throat. "Damn Cota for making me come back in here," she mumbled. She
then sat down to wait, for surly someone would come and show her the way
unknowingly...........
* * * * * * * * * *
Kaokey and Silver walked beside one another to their
favorite spings cave. They were no longer hatchling and now did not get that annoying
raise of an eye ridge when they were together playing in the caves, even though nothing
had ever happened. In the springs cave their were all type of swimming holes. Ones
were the snow of the mountains had seeped through the soil and dripped down in to pools
making them very cold. Their were also springs that were heated to almost a boil from
the heat of the volcano. Plus ever thing in between. After they had finally left the stage
of being hatchling the two of them would go their very often. They were forever pushing
each other in to the colder springs. Silver had a lot of fond memories there. Memories of
Kaokey. It was also where Silver had first mated with Kaokey.........
* * * * * * * * * *
Silver startled from her memories of Kaokey as a black dragon flew in through the rush of
water. Silver’s anger intensified as she realized they were using an entrance at HER
LAIR!!!!.... She had just hoped this was false suspicions. Still, she thought best to stay
quiet for now. As it walked by she slowly kept behind. This hiding in shadow annoyed
her to no end and she longed to just roar and attack the fool that walked so confidently
walked down her lairs halls. She may not use these tunnels, but this was her land never
the less. The black stopped suddenly and laid down in a nook of the path. He settled in
and Silver growled to herself as she realized this was the guard. She sighed and turned
back, she would do this later and when she did find Cota...... She smiled an evil smile.
* * * * * * * * * *
Silver and Kaokey were asleep when Cota came running in to the cave. Kaokey’s head
came up as Silver opened on eye. She saw who it was and sighed in annoyance. Silver
stretched and leaned against Kaokey, preparing to go back to sleep. She glanced at Cota
and the look on his face startled her. It was one of pain, then as it switched over to
Kaokey it turned in to one of anger. She had no idea what it meant, but Kaokey did. He
pulled Silver close and protectively put his wing around her. She snuggled up against
him and fell back to sleep happily. Kaokey’s eyes never left Cota as he turned and
stormed out of the cave. Ever since that encounter Kaokey was very protective of Silver
when ever Cota was near. Silver didn’t care though, she enjoyed the attention and never
really noticed how Cota reacted.
* * * * * * * * * *
Silver opened her eyes and stood up. She couldn’t do anything out of the ordinary today
so she slipped in to the warmer lake. She settled in and observed the warmth. As the
third sun crested over the horizon she got out. Silver took to the air and did three lazy
circles, seeming to dry off. As the suns joined she dove through the waterfall using the
bright flash as cover. She shifted in to a Pegasus and began to go down the passage way
at deadly fast pace. The Black dragon was sleeping and she opened her wing, fly silently
over him. He didn’t wake for some strange reason which gave her the opportunity to
keep going. Each curve was a memory, she knew when the ceiling dipped and were the
floor rose. When a curve that was to shape to turn normally on came up, she still knew
the exact way around it. Silver had never forgotten these caves, she had just wished to.
* * * * * * * * * *Silver
and Kaokey were very much in love. You could see it. Showing outward and open
effection to one another. Silver loved to lay her head between his wing ridges just to hear
him breath, feel his heart beat. In him Silver had found her disteny, she wanted a family
eventually. The way her family worked is every other female could have a fair amount of
hatchlings, up to three nests of four eggs. Which was a lot because dragons seldom nest,
for they need to feel protected and sucure in their surroundings. Silver was laying
together with him by the hot springs. He wrapped his wings around her, which shows
effection and she fell in to a fitful sleep nestled against him. A huge crash woke them up
with a start. Kaokey took to the air immediately, Silver followed a quick second behind.
He turned around and said “stay here.” Silver wasn’t about to listen to him and she dove
in to the cave a moment after he did.
Kaokey stopped in the main tunnel and begin digging. He yelled over to Silver to
help White Gold, Silver looked for her and saw a trail of Dragon blood. She lifted
White Gold and carried her out of the caves. White Gold mummered she was fine, but
Silver used her mind call to her mother. In her panic it actually worked and their were 6
dragons there in a few minutes. She flew back in finding a hole in the cave in, after
waiting a few agonizing minutes Cota clawed out, but just as her cleared the path. The
rest fell in, covering the hole and it sounded like the entire back.
Silver was just a
young dragon and didn’t know how to use her power, but the thought of losing him made
her panic increase. She dove to the rock slide and began moving huge rocks. All of a
sudden she moved back and the whole slide began to slowly part, she felt someone
stepping behind her and knew it was her mother. All of a sudden it got a lot easier, she
made it about 200 feet back in to the cave before seeing him. A large bolder lay across
him wings completely crushing them, they would never be healed. He was in bad
condition. Silver saw all this as she ran to him. When she laid her head between his
wing ridges she found no heart beat, breath being taken. She knew and she hated
everyone for it. Silver walked calmly pasted everyone and left the caves. With a few
hard pumps of her wings she was not to be seen. Nor would be for a very long time, she
was now in morning for her lost mate. Her lost love.
* * * * * * * * * *
Silver made it to the center and found Cota working to open another rift. She stepped
behind him, then with her tail knocked him down. He looked at her with a large grin on
her face. Welcome Silver, I am glad you came...
Warrior Magic
